On top of selecting a new president, voting on a new U.S. Senator and choosing Florida lawmakers, Floridians will vote on five constitutional amendments later this year. 

A resolution from two congressional representatives from Florida urging  Germany to “fulfill its moral responsibility to Holocaust survivors and urgently provide the financial resources necessary to ensure that Survivors live in dignity and comfort in their remaining years” cleared a key committee vote this week. 

Preparing to make public universities a priority during the next two years, incoming Senate President Joe Negron says more and better scholarships will help take Florida's higher-education system to the next level.

The Stuart Republican has made clear his goal of finding an additional $1 billion for the 12 public universities during his two-year term as president, which is slated to begin after the November elections.

The race to make it to the Florida Capitol is heating up, and politicians are stockpiling loads of cash to help them secure a win in November to send them to Tallahassee next year.

Unlike the top war chests in the race for Florida House seats, the top Senate war chests are a mixed bag, with a slightly higher number of Democrats snagging a spot in the top 10. Republicans have six out of the top 10 seats, with four Democrats rounding out the group. 

Newly redrawn district lines have created the perfect storm for competitive and expensive campaigns in 2016.

The race to make it to the Florida Capitol is heating up, and politicians are stockpiling loads of cash to help them secure a win in November to send them to Tallahassee next year.

Attorneys for Democratic Congresswoman Corrine Brown are pushing back against demands that she and her supporters foot the legal bill for groups that defended a new redistricting plan in a federal court battle.
 
In filings last week in U.S. District Court in Tallahassee, Brown's lawyers said her claims against the new map of her district were not "frivolous," as the organizations that defended the map have argued. A three-judge federal panel rejected Brown's claims.
 

Todd Wilcox hasn’t been around Florida politics for very long -- and he’s okay with that. 

The two congressional representatives from Florida who lead the House Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee brought a resolution backing a longterm Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on military assistance between the U.S. and Israeli governments. 

With more than 110 cases of Zika already reported in the Sunshine State, Florida’s two senators have teamed up to fund President Barack Obama’s request for $1.9 billion to fight that virus, almost twice the amount Congress is willing to provide. 

Lobbying firms pulled in more than $35 million during the first three months of the year for their work in the Legislature --- with five firms each earning at least $1 million, according to newly filed reports.

The fees came as lawmakers held an earlier-than-usual session that started in January and ended March 11. Firms faced a Sunday night deadline for filing reports that gave at least broad compensation totals for the first quarter, though in most cases the reports do not include exact amounts.